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Just over three years ago, husband and wife team Bob Purcell and Rebecca Wheeling answered a calling to turn a bright idea into a business.

As independent insurance adjusters, the couple knew having someone work the phones and maps to schedule and route their appointments made their work more efficient. More importantly, those services enabled them to help people in crises get their lives back faster.

Nearly every piece of software in existence has a back door, tweak or hack that will open up a new world of possibilities. For gamers, these god-like powers give you things like unlimited lives, infinite power, or indestructibility.

Windows has long had, at least since Windows 97, a GodMode. GodMode for Windows 10 provides access to over 260 features and utilities that approach god-like powers for Windows testers, hackers, and even the common user.

If eyes are windows to the soul, the tongue is certainly the thermostat of the heart. What is the temperature of your heart? Is your heart warm: Filled with good and encouraging words for people around you? Or is it cold: talking down about someone, tearing away at their character, looks or circumstances? Maybe your heart is somewhere in the middle; a tepid battle ground that changes with it’s surroundings? Sometimes you encourage and uplift with your words, other times, if it suits you and you feel the need, you tear down and destroy with your words.

Sometimes building a healthy cushion of savings can seem like a daunting task. It can be very easy to lose track and have to make a late credit card payment or to end up spending all of your paycheck without remembering to save part of it. One easy way to get started on saving this Kentucky Saves Week is to automate your savings.

One of my best friends sent me the best present ever, an Amazon Echo. It started out as an innocent question, since I knew he had one. “What is Echo and what would I do with it?” His response was “You just have to try it.”, and he sent me one.

For many people, the month of February brings thoughts of romance and love in relationships. Sadly, some relationships that begin with the hope of love become abusive and violent over time. For teens in particular, who are still developing emotionally and are heavily influenced by experiences in their relationships, dating violence can have severe consequences and cause lifelong negative health effects.

The Governor’s Office of Early Childhood wants to make sure families are aware how important the first years are in a child’s development. Ninety percent of brain development happens in the first five years. A child’s vocabulary as early as age three can predict third grade reading achievement.

The automotive industry has not only completed its recovery from the Great Recession, but also broke light vehicle sales records in 2015. With this growth, communities in the Lincoln Trail region and across the Commonwealth are positioned to realize even greater opportunities.

Our region has played a significant role in Kentucky’s automotive industry for decades. Most of the eight counties of our region are home to an automotive supplier and, in recent years, we’ve welcomed a number of new companies and celebrated multiple expansions.

As a business professional, your business life-blood may depend on email, texting, and quality communications. I have been using email since its inception at DARPA and I have seen the worst and the best of practices. Unfortunately, today we experience more worst than best of practices.

First, consider that email is more like sending a letter. If you do not know what a letter is, please put this down and ask your mother. And texting is more like a short phone call. Do not confuse the two.